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Turnover Number

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In enzyme kinetics, we are interested to know how many maximum molecules of substrate can be converted into product per catalytic site of a given concentration of enzyme per unit time.

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with

  • The units of Turn over number (kcat) are kcat = (moles of product/sec)/ (moles of enzyme) or sec-1.

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